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Michigan's 3rd Senate district

Michigan's 3rd Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Stephanie Chang since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Sylvia Santana.[2][3]

Michigan's 3rd
State Senate district
Senator
  Stephanie Chang
D–Detroit
Demographics41% White
42% Black
2% Hispanic
10% Asian
1% Other
3% Multiracial
Population (2022)263,404
Notes[1]

It is the most Democratic-leaning district in the Senate, giving both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over 80% of the vote.

Geography

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District 3 encompasses parts of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.[4]

2011 Apportionment Plan

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District 3, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, was based in the city of Dearborn and parts of western Detroit in Wayne County, also covering the smaller community of Melvindale.[5]

The district overlapped with Michigan's 12th, 13th, and 14th congressional districts, and with the 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 14th, and 15th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.[6]

List of senators

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Senator Party Dates Residence Notes
Calvin Britain Democratic 1835–1837 St. Joseph [7][8]
John S. Barry Democratic 1835–1838 Constantine [7][9]
Horace H. Comstock Democratic 1835–1838 Comstock [7][10]
Vincent L. Bradford Democratic 1838 Niles [7][11][12]
Elijah F. Cook Democratic 1839 Farmington [7][13]
Thomas J. Drake Whig 1839–1841 Flint [7][14]
Stephen V. R. Trowbridge Whig 1839–1841 Birmingham [7][15]
John P. LeRoy Whig 1840–1841 Pontiac [7][16]
Elisha P. Champlin Whig 1842 Jonesville [7][17]
John Burch Democratic 1842–1843 Monroe [7][18]
William L. Greenly Democratic 1842–1843 Adrian [7][19]
Michael A. Patterson Democratic 1844–1845 Tecumseh [7][20]
William T. Howell Democratic 1843–1846 Hillsdale [7][21]
Jefferson G. Thurber Democratic 1844–1847 Monroe [7][22]
Rufus Kibbee Democratic 1846–1847 Medina [7][23]
George Coe Whig 1847 Coldwater [7][24]
John P. Cook Democratic 1847–1848 Hillsdale [7][25]
Daniel D. Sinclair Democratic 1848 Adrian [7][26][27]
Enos G. Berry Democratic 1848–1849 Quincy [7][28][27][29]
Nelson Dunham Democratic 1848–1849 Dundee [7][30]
Levi Baxter Whig 1849–1850 Jonesville Also backed by the Free Soilers.[7][31]
Fielder S. Snow Democratic 1849–1850 Clinton [7][32]
Isaac P. Christiancy Democratic 1850 Monroe [7][33][34][35]
Free Soil 1851–1852
Alfred French Democratic 1850–1852 Bronson [7][36]
John Barber Democratic 1851–1852 Adrian [7][37][35]
Henry S. Mead Democratic 1851–1852 Hillsdale [7][38][35]
The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district.[39][40]
Henry Fralick Democratic 1853–1854 Plymouth [7][41][42]
Nathaniel Ladd Republican 1855–1856 Dearbornville [7][43]
Henry Ledyard Democratic 1857–1858 Detroit [7][44]
Thornton F. Brodhead Democratic 1859–1860 Trenton [7][45]
Henry T. Backus Republican 1861–1862 Detroit [7][46]
William E. Warner Democratic 1863–1864 Rawsonville [7][47]
Adam Minnis Democratic 1865–1866 Wayne [7][48][49]
Oliver C. Abell Republican 1867–1868 Wayne [7][50]
Elliott T. Slocum Republican 1869–1870 Trenton [7][51]
Robert V. Briggs Democratic 1871–1872 Wyandotte [7][52]
William C. Sutton Republican 1873–1874 Ecorse [7][53][54]
James I. David Democratic 1875–1876 Ecorse [7][55]
Matthew Markey Democratic 1877–1878 Wayne [7][56]
William W. Duffield Democratic 1879–1880 Inkster [7][57]
Thomas Morrison Republican 1881–1882 Wayne [7][58]
James M. Hueston Democratic 1883–1886 Northville [7][59]
Bernard O'Reilly Democratic 1887–1888 Detroit Also backed by the Independent Labor Party.[7][60]
Anthony Grosfield Democratic 1889–1890 Detroit [7][61]
Peter E. Park Democratic 1891–1892 Detroit [7][62]
Joseph R. McLaughlin Republican 1893–1896 Detroit [7][63][64][65]
Charles W. Moore Republican 1897–1898 Detroit [7][66]
George F. Monaghan Democratic 1899–1900 Detroit [7][67]
James E. Scripps Republican 1903–1904 Detroit [7][68]
Noble Ashley Republican 1905–1906 Detroit [7][69]
Joseph Edward Bland Republican 1907–1908 Detroit [7][70]
John Donald M. MacKay Republican 1909–1910 Detroit [7][71]
Guy A. Miller Republican 1911–1912 Detroit [7][72]
James W. Hanley Republican 1913–1918 Detroit [7][73]
Arthur E. Wood Republican 1919–1926 Detroit [7][74]
Joseph Bahorski Republican 1927–1928 Detroit [7][75]
George Kolowich Republican 1929–1930 Hamtramck [7][76]
Charles A. Roxborough Republican 1931–1932 Detroit [7][77]
Leo G. Karwick Democratic 1933–1934 Hamtramck [7][78]
John Mankowski Democratic 1935–1936 Hamtramck [7][79]
Charles C. Diggs Sr. Democratic 1937–1944 Detroit [7][80]
Henry R. Kozak Democratic 1945–1950 Hamtramck [7][81]
Charles C. Diggs Jr. Democratic 1951–1954 Detroit [7][82]
Cora Brown Democratic 1955–1956 Detroit [7][83]
Basil W. Brown Democratic 1957–1964 Detroit [7][84]
Stanley F. Rozycki Democratic 1965–1974 Detroit [7][85]
Basil W. Brown Democratic 1975–1982 Detroit [7][84]
Jackie Vaughn III Democratic 1983–1994 Detroit [7][86]
Henry Stallings II Democratic 1995–1998 Detroit Resigned.[7][87]
Raymond M. Murphy Democratic 1998–2002 Detroit [7][88][87]
Irma Clark-Coleman Democratic 2003–2010 Detroit [7][89]
Morris Hood III Democratic 2011–2018 Detroit [7][90]
Sylvia Santana Democratic 2019–2022 Detroit [7][91]
Stephanie Chang Democratic 2023–present Detroit [92]

Recent election results

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2018

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2018 Michigan Senate election, District 3[93]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Sylvia Santana 12,646 41.5
Democratic Gary Woronchak 11,785 38.7
Democratic Anita Belle 4,367 14.3
Democratic Terry Burrell 1,668 5.5
Total votes 30,466 100
General election
Democratic Sylvia Santana 58,405 81.8
Republican Kathy Stecker 10,928 15.3
Working Class Hali McEachern 2,095 2.9
Total votes 71,428 100
Democratic hold

2014

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2014 Michigan Senate election, District 3[93]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Morris Hood III (incumbent) 45,546 80.4
Republican Matthew Keller 11,086 19.6
Total votes 56,632 100
Democratic hold

Federal and statewide results

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Year Office Results[94]
2020 President Biden 81.6 – 17.2%
2018 Senate Stabenow 81.7 – 16.3%
Governor Whitmer 82.4 – 15.3%
2016 President Clinton 80.7 – 16.1%
2014 Senate Peters 81.6 – 15.6%
Governor Schauer 74.9 – 23.5%
2012 President Obama 85.0 – 14.4%
Senate Stabenow 85.7 – 11.9%


Historical district boundaries

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Map Description Apportionment Plan Notes
1964 Apportionment Plan [95]
1972 Apportionment Plan [96]
1982 Apportionment Plan [97]
1992 Apportionment Plan [98]
2001 Apportionment Plan [99]
  2011 Apportionment Plan [100]

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